https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
QT:{{” From 1832, when she was seventeen, her mathematical abilities began to emerge,[23] and her interest in mathematics dominated the majority of her adult life.[39] Her mother’s obsession with rooting out any of the insanity of which she accused Byron was one of the reasons that Ada was taught mathematics from an early age. She was privately educated in mathematics and science by William Frend, William King,[a] and Mary Somerville, the noted 19th-century researcher and scientific author. In the 1840s, the mathematician Augustus De Morgan extended her “much help in her mathematical studies” including study of advanced calculus topics including the “numbers of Bernoulli” (that formed her celebrated algorithm for Babbage’s Analytical Engine).[40] In a letter to Lady Byron, De Morgan suggested that Ada’s skill in mathematics might lead her to become “an original mathematical investigator, perhaps of first-rate
eminence”.[41] “}}
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